Mat-forming perennial herb (in ours) with many spreading stems arising from a woody rootstock. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets obovate to elliptic, not linear; margin entire or (in ours) dentate to crenate. Inflorescences composed of false racemes or spikes, each bearing 3-8 flowers. Calyx teeth unequal, the lowest the longest. Fruit 1-seeded, indehiscent, ellipsoid to spherical, bearing conspicuous black glandular warts. Worldwide: 35 species occurring in the Old World tropics Botswana: 1 taxon. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| tomentosum (Thunb.) J.W. Grimes | N,SW,SE | Image |